Tim Rhodes Elected as SCSBA Region 11 Director

COLUMBIA – Tim Rhodes,
board member of the Abbeville County School District, was elected as Region 11 Director
of the South Carolina School Boards Association (SCSBA) during the
association’s annual business meeting Saturday, December 8.He was elected to complete one year of a four-year
term.Region 11 includes the Abbeville,
Anderson 1, 2, 3; Edgefield, Greenwood 50, 51, 52; McCormick; and Saluda school
districts.

The
annual business meeting, which was held during the association’s Legislative
Advocacy Conference, included voting delegates from most of the state’s 81
school boards. In addition to the election of association officers, delegates
adopt resolutions to guide the association during the 2019 legislative session.

Rhodes
has been a member of the Abbeville County School Board since November 2007. He
has served as Chairman, Vice Chair and Secretary for the board over the past
eleven years. He also volunteers as a baseball, shooting team and football
coach for the local high school. He is one of the founding members of the
Calhoun Falls FFA Alumni Chapter. Rhodes serves as President of the local
non-profit organization Faith Hunters for Youth.

Rhodes
is married to Lois Gamer Rhodes, and they have four children - three daughters
and one son - and one grandson. Mr. Rhodes is an active member of Northside
Baptist Church in Calhoun Falls, SC, where he serves as a deacon and is a
member of the praise team band.

He
served 13 years in the Army and USAR before being honorably discharged in 2000.
Along with his military service and community and school involvement, Rhodes is
a full-time employee of Prysmian Group North America. He has been with them for
the past 24 years and is currently a Quality Assurance Coordinator.

Officers
elected to lead the association’s board of directors for a one-year term are as
follows:

President,Tony Folk, Dorchester School District
Four

President-elect,
Chuck Saylors, Greenville County Schools

Vice President,
Cheryl Burgess, Lexington School District Three

Secretary/Treasurer,
Jamie Devine, Richland One School District

Others elected to serve a four-year term on
the 23-member board of directors as regional directors are:

Region 2, Cindy Bohn
Coats, Charleston County School District

Region 6, Charles
Govan, Darlington County School District

Region 8, Amelia McKie,
Richland School District Two

Region 10, Hannah
Priester, Hampton District One

Region 14, Travis
Sloan, Spartanburg School District One

The South Carolina School Boards Association is a non-profit
organization serving as a source of information and a statewide voice for
boards governing the state’s 81 school districts.